theRighting – Alerting Mainstream Audiences to Today’s Headlines from the Right

Aug

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Tucker Carlson is playing a dangerous game flirting obliquely with running for president as a third-party candidate. So says influential conservative pundit Victor Davis Hanson in a recent YouTube video (see transcript). Hanson points out that no third-party candidate has ever won a U.S. presidential election. In fact, notes Hanson, “They do affect the election in some cases, but that’s only to hurt the party that is more ideologically akin to the third-party run"....Usha Vance, JD Vance's wife, gets the full profile treatment in the current issue of Vanity Fair. The Victory Girls blog calls the article “petty”...If you’ve been following the flap about men playing in the WNBA, you’ll appreciate this clever headline from The Federalist: The Balls Are in the WNBA’s Court....Somehow I missed ABC's broadcast last night of the 2026 Patriot Games, hosted by Donald J. Trump. It featured high school athletes competing in a variety of challenges testing their strength and endurance capabilities. The competition spotlighted in the one-hour prime time special took place earlier this month. The irony of the doughy-looking, overweight, 80-year-old president presiding over a TV program celebrating fitness does not escape me. And I think he’s got better things to do with his time like figure out an exit for his war with Iran...Weekend Watch: This is an easy choice. Now is the perfect time to revisit the great 1997 action-thriller Air Force One. It stars Harrison Ford as the brave POTUS who finds himself (and family) aboard his trusty 747 which gets hijacked by Russian bad guys. Ford fights back heroically. Trump and Hegseth should take notes. Available for rent on Amazon Prime and well worth the $3.99....I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Today's Headlines From the Right

Military Transgenderism Exploded Under Biden

source: Daily Caller

“Gender dysphoria” patient counts jumped roughly 82% during President Joe Biden’s first year in office, according to internal Defense Health Agency (DHA) records.

Margaret Cho Says Trans Jokes Kill Trans People

source: Hollywood in Toto

Far-left comic danced on Sen. Lindsay Graham's grave, now attacks comedy

Greedy Dems Take Aim at Taylor Swift and You’re Next

source: NY Post

Taylor Swift is enemy No.1 to cash-grabbing Democrats in Rhode Island: They’ve named their state’s new vacation-home property tax after her. They and other radical leftists across the country claim that by attacking the rich, including celebs like Swift, they’re saving democracy.Don’t be fooled.

Dems’ Growing Extremism Will Surely Backfire

source: Washington Examiner

For more than a decade, Democrats have watched Donald Trump succeed with a brand of politics that is crude, often coarse, and always volatile. They have agonized, mostly unproductively, about how to defeat it. They tried various strategies, and all ultimately failed. Now they are trying another that is doomed.

If Democrats Walk Like Socialists and Talk Like Socialists, Maybe They’re Socialists

source: American Thinker

The media and other Democrats keep trying to tell us there’s daylight between the Democrat and the Democrat Socialists, but that’s increasingly hard to believe.

Sex and the Socialist Girl

source: The Dispatch

What if sex, not ideology, is responsible for recent Midwestern election results?

Both UK PMs Linked to Muslim Sex-Grooming Gangs

source: FrontPage

Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had formerly headed the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which had offered a pass to the Muslim sex grooming gangs who had trafficked and raped as many as 250,000 women and girls in the UK.

Let’s Hope Science and Logic Rule the Day in Sports Again

source: Newsmax

Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White just threw their hats into the 2027 WNBA Draft. Under the basketball league's own eligibility language, the two former NBA first-round picks are currently identifying as women.

WNBA Tries and Fails to Figure Out What a Woman Is

source: Victory Girls

The WNBA is stumped by the letter “W” in its name. And without a definitive common sense answer, the league is going to collapse under a logic pretzel of its own making.

Karoline Leavitt, the Press Secretary Who Perfected the Art of Defending Trump

source: Wall Street Journal

The 28-year-old and the president shared a tone and, it seemed at times, a mind.

CNN’s MAGA Warrior Eyed for White House Podium

source: SteveGruber.com

Democrats might want to buckle up. Karoline Leavitt is leaving her post as Trump’s press secretary – and one of the names reportedly being floated to replace her is Scott Jennings, a guy who already spends his evenings sparring with Democrats on CNN. And he does it very well.

Wildfires, Heat Waves and Blackouts Exposed the Green Agenda’s Dangerous Flaws

source: Fox News

Decades of ideology masquerading as environmental stewardship have left people less safe while doing little to help the environment

Trump Is Actually Kind to Haitians in the U.S.

source: WND

Lost in the media coverage of the proposed return of Haitians back to their homeland is how generous Trump is being to them. Each Haitian has an offer of $2,600 to return voluntarily, and yet Trump is being falsely portrayed as somehow being unfair.

Elite Universities Reward Disgraced Leaders with Million-Dollar Soft Landings

source: National Review

Administrators who violate laws, policies, and basic standards of conduct are getting huge payouts instead of pink slips.

One Year Later, Washington, DC, Is a Safer Place Thanks to the National Guard

source: PJ Media

Back in August 2025, Trump made the decision to declare a local crime emergency, calling on the National Guard to fight back against growing crime within the city. Of course, not everyone was on board with this, as many Democrats, including Mayor Muriel Bowser, believed it was the wrong move. T

If You Want Grandbabies, Raise Your Kids to Get Married and Have Kids

source: The Federalist

If you’d rather spend your 60s holding grand-babies instead of watching your 30-something daughter livestream hormone injections, start laying the foundation for marriage and parenthood now.